www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Robert Newtonhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/robert-newton/?utm_medium=RSSwww.washingtontimes.com Topics: Robert Newtonen-usFri, 28 Sep 2012 16:07:33 -0400Founder of racing tire company dies at 85http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/28/founder-of-racing-tire-company-dies-at-85/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>LAKEVILLE, IND. (AP) - Robert Newton, a philanthropist and the founder of a company that produced tires for NASCAR cars, has died, the Indiana company announced Friday. He was 85.</p><p>Newton's Hoosier Racing Tire began as an operation in an old horse barn half a century ago, and it started supplying ...ASSOCIATED PRESSFri, 28 Sep 2012 10:54:34 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/28/founder-of-racing-tire-company-dies-at-85/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSFounder of Hoosier Racing Tire company dies at 85http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/28/founder-of-hoosier-racing-tire-company-dies-at-85/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>LAKEVILLE, IND. (AP) - Robert Newton, a philanthropist and the founder of a company that produced tires for NASCAR cars, has died. He was 85.</p><p>Newton's Hoosier Racing Tire began as an operation in an old horse barn half a century ago, and it started supplying tires to NASCAR teams in ...ASSOCIATED PRESSFri, 28 Sep 2012 16:07:33 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/28/founder-of-hoosier-racing-tire-company-dies-at-85/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSLETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.S. Army needs MEADS, not Patriothttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/27/us-army-needs-meads-not-patriot/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Robert Newton's op-ed column ("Getting bad actors out of missile defense," Thursday) is misleading about Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) capabilities and progress.</p> <p>Today's threats have outgrown the Patriot missile-defense system - just ask a soldier. In hostile territory, is that soldier OK with air- and missile-defense protection that ...Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:44:03 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/27/us-army-needs-meads-not-patriot/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS